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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weep  \Weep\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wept};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Weeping}.]  [OE.  wepen,  AS  w?pan,  from  w?p  lamentation;  akin 
  to  OFries  w?pa  to  lament,  OS  w?p  lamentation,  OHG.  wuof, 
  Icel.  ?p  a  shouting,  crying,  OS  w?pian  to  lament,  OHG. 
  wuoffan  wuoffen  Icel.  ?pa,  Goth.  w?pjan.  ????.] 
  1.  Formerly,  to  express  sorrow,  grief,  or  anguish,  by  outcry, 
  or  by  other  manifest  signs;  in  modern  use  to  show  grief 
  or  other  passions  by  shedding  tears;  to  shed  tears;  to 
  cry. 
 
  And  they  all  wept  sore,  and  fell  on  Paul's  neck. 
  --Acts  xx  37. 
 
  Phocion  was  rarely  seen  to  weep  or  to  laugh. 
  --Mitford. 
 
  And  eyes  that  wake  to  weep.  --Mrs.  Hemans. 
 
  And  they  wept  together  in  silence.  --Longfellow. 
 
  2.  To  lament;  to  complain.  ``They  weep  unto  me  saying,  Give 
  us  flesh,  that  we  may  eat.''  --Num.  xi  13. 
 
  3.  To  flow  in  drops;  to  run  in  drops. 
 
  The  blood  weeps  from  my  heart.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  To  drop  water,  or  the  like  to  drip;  to  be  soaked. 
 
  5.  To  hang  the  branches,  as  if  in  sorrow;  to  be  pendent;  to 
  droop;  --  said  of  a  plant  or  its  branches. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wept  \Wept\, 
  imp.  &  p.  p.  of  {Weep}.




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